On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:42 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > BEFORE: > Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G > Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) > > I did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 > > AFTER: > Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G > Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G, used=237.72G, > unused=6.42G > > WTF... You seem to have a misconception about what dd is for. It just copies data from A to B with no interpretation at all. In this case dd copied the entire contents of Disk1 to Disk1, including all the system meta-information (superblock, inode list, free list etc.), but since partition table info is not part of that data (it's held on a different part of the disk), Disk2's partition layout didn't change. So Disk 2 now has a filesystem sitting on it that has a lot of physical free space at the end which it doesn't know about. It needs to be resized, e.g. with gparted. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
